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Years ago I first heard about a Russian doctor who was said to have written a book about using dreams to diagnose. The last week I came accross to a reference to another Russian doctor, being doctor V. Nikolaevich Kasatkin. Supposedly he used dreams for “early diagnosis of severe diseases like cancer, tuberculosis, appendicitis, etc“. Unfortunately, I’m not aware of translations of this report.

I found some other doctors on the internet. See Dieter Kroener (German) and Jean-Michel Crabbé (French). I hope that these two gentlemen will soon write a blog about their experiences with dreams.

Denmark will soon have a dreamer’s association too. Here’s the message from Anders Vogt, on behalf of the initiative group:

We are a group of danes who are establishing a danish “branch” of ASD called “Danish Association for the Study of Dreams” or “Foreningen for studiet af Drømme”. Our first general meeting is going to be held in Copenhagen in February. Anyone who is interested is welcome. You can read the (Danish language) invitation on our web site http://www.ffsd.dk/ or you write to mail@ffsd.dk if you have any questions or would like to join the association.

In the early years of the internet I created the Healing Dreams website, telling about my health problems and my dreams. It hasn’t been updated for a long time. My health has improved, and as a reflection of that I moved on to a new website called Alquinte. However, the interest remains.

I would like to know how dreams can help with physical problems. According to some people all work with dreams is healing, if only on the psychological level. That’s nice, but at what point can dreams become physically healing? Examples of physical dream healing exist, although these usually concern relatively benign afflictions. Having had a chronic and seriously dibilating illness myself - with still some way to go - in the end I’d say I would like to learn more about the healing potential for serious illnesses.

Blame Siggi (one of the translaters). He suggested I could use this blog for one of my own pet interests. More later.

There is an ancient distinction between dreams from the gates of horn and ivory. Yet, there are contemporary sources that advice us that especially the gate of horn still holds much value for us. We leave it up to you to decide whether that’s true. Christoph Gassmann explains.

Translation follows…

Clare Johnson is a doctoral researcher with the University of Leeds, England, investigating the role of lucid dreaming in the process of novel writing. She explains a bit more about her research, and hopes some of you will be able to help her.

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Test your dreaming skills with the Remote Viewing Challenge of Saturday December 4th (or later depending on where you live). Somebody in the world will be at a certain location. Your challenge is to sketch and/or describe that location. You can do this with the help of a dream, of through Remote Viewing while awake.

More information is available at the Bulletin Board of the IASD. Good luck everyone!

The photo on the left is the art museum of Groningen (the Netherlands), the target of November. The best viewing was submitted by Sherri, and described in very few keywords: Object - Paintings, Building - Museum, Site - Exibit.